Édouard Daladier
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Édouard DaladierÉdouard Daladier (French: [edwaʁ daladje]; 18 June 1884 – 10
October 1970) was a French "radical" (i.e. centre-left) politician and
the
Prime Minister of FrancePrime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.Contents1 Career1.1 Munich
1.2 Rearmament
1.3 World War II
1.4 Later life2 Daladier's first ministry, 31 January – 26 October 1933
3 Daladier's second ministry, 30 January – 9 February 1934
4 Daladier's third ministry, 10 April 1938 – 21 March 1940
5 See also
6 Endnotes
7 References
8 External linksCareer[edit]
Daladier was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. Later, he would become
known to many as "the bull of Vaucluse" because of his thick neck and
large shoulders and determined look, although cynics also quipped that
his horns were like those of a snail
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin[note 1] (18 December 1878 – 5 March
1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian ethnicity.
Governing the
Soviet UnionSoviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953,
he served as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the
Soviet UnionSoviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and as Premier
of the
Soviet UnionSoviet Union from 1941 to 1953. Initially heading a collective
one-party state government, by 1937 he was the country's de facto
dictator. Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist, Stalin helped to
formalise these ideas as Marxism–
LeninismLeninism while his own policies
became known as Stalinism.
Raised into a poor family in Gori, Russian Empire, as a youth Stalin
joined the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
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Paris
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers
> 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river
estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes
(e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.
ParisParis (French pronunciation: ​[paʁi] ( listen)) is
the capital and most populous city in France, with an
administrative-limits area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles)
and an official population of 2,206,488 (2015).[5] The city is a
commune and department, and the heart of the 12,012-square-kilometre
(4,638-square-mile) Île-de-
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Deuxieme Bureau
The
Deuxième Bureau de l'État-major général ("Second Bureau of the
General Staff") was France's external military intelligence agency
from 1871 to 1940. It was dissolved together with the Third Republic
upon the armistice with Germany. However the term "Deuxième Bureau"
(French: [døzjɛm byʁo]), like "MI5" or "SMERSH", outlived the
original organization as a general label for the country's
intelligence service.
French military intelligence was composed of two separate bureaus
prior to World War II. The Premier Bureau was charged with informing
the high command about the state of French, allied and friendly
troops, while the
Deuxième Bureau developed intelligence concerning
enemy troops
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The
KruppKrupp family (see pronunciation), a prominent 400-year-old German
dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their production of steel,
artillery, ammunition, and other armaments. The family business, known
as
Friedrich KruppFriedrich Krupp AG, was the largest company in
EuropeEurope at the
beginning of the 20th century. It was important to weapons development
and production in both world wars. One of the most powerful dynasties
in European history, for 400 years
KruppKrupp flourished as the premier
weapons manufacturer for Germany
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ConservatismConservatismConservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting
traditional social institutions in the context of culture and
civilization. The central tenets of conservatism include tradition,
human imperfection, organic society, hierarchy and authority and
property rights.[1] Conservatives seek to preserve a range of
institutions such as monarchy, religion, parliamentary government and
property rights with the aim of emphasizing social stability and
continuity[2] while the more extreme elements called reactionaries
oppose modernism and seek a return to "the way things were".[3][4]
The first established use of the term in a political context
originated in 1818 with François-René de Chateaubriand[5] during the
period of
Bourbon restorationBourbon restoration that sought to roll back the policies of
the French Revolution
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"The Internationale" (French: L'Internationale) is a left-wing anthem.
It has been a standard of the socialist movement since the late
nineteenth century, when the
Second InternationalSecond International adopted it as its
official anthem. The title arises from the "First International", an
alliance of workers which held a congress in 1864. The author of the
anthem's lyrics, Eugène Pottier, attended this congress.
The original French refrain of the song is C'est la lutte finale /
Groupons-nous et demain / L'Internationale / Sera le genre humain.
(English: "This is the final struggle / Let us group together and
tomorrow /
The InternationaleThe Internationale / Will be the human race.")
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A coalition government is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in
which many or multiple political parties cooperate, reducing the
dominance of any one party within that coalition. The usual reason for
this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in
the parliament. A coalition government might also be created in a time
of national difficulty or crisis (for example, during wartime or
economic crisis) to give a government the high degree of perceived
political legitimacy or collective identity it desires while also
playing a role in diminishing internal political strife. In such
times, parties have formed all-party coalitions (national unity
governments, grand coalitions)
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The army rank of captain (from the French capitaine) is a commissioned
officer rank historically corresponding to the command of a company of
soldiers. The rank is also used by some air forces and marine forces.
Today, a captain is typically either the commander or
second-in-command of a company or artillery battery (or United States
Army cavalry troop or Commonwealth squadron). In the Chinese People's
Liberation Army, a captain may also command a company, or be the
second-in-command of a battalion.
In
NATONATO countries, the rank of captain is described by the code OF-2
and is one rank above an OF-1 (lieutenant or first lieutenant) and one
below an OF-3 (major or commandant)
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The French Army, officially the Ground
ArmyArmy (French: Armée de terre
[aʀme də tɛʀ]) (to distinguish it from the French Air Force,
Armée de L'air or Air Army) is the land-based and largest component
of the French Armed Forces. It is responsible to the Government of
France, along with the other four components of the Armed Forces. The
current
Chief of Staff of the French ArmyChief of Staff of the French Army (CEMAT) is General
Jean-Pierre Bosser, a direct subordinate of the Chief of the Defence
Staff (CEMA). General Bosser is also responsible, in part, to the
Ministry of the Armed Forces for organization, preparation, use of
forces, as well as planning and programming, equipment and
ArmyArmy future
acquisitions
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A teacher (also called a school teacher or, in some contexts, an
educator) is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge,
competences or values.
Informally the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. when
showing a colleague how to perform a specific task). In some
countries, teaching young people of school age may be carried out in
an informal setting, such as within the family (homeschooling), rather
than in a formal setting such as a school or college. Some other
professions may involve a significant amount of teaching (e.g. youth
worker, pastor).
In most countries, formal teaching of students is usually carried out
by paid professional teachers
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spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of
more extreme nationalist,[1][2] and nativist ideologies, as well as
authoritarian tendencies.[3]
The term is often associated with Nazism,[4] neo-Nazism, fascism,
neo-fascism and other ideologies or organizations that feature extreme
nationalist, chauvinist, xenophobic, racist or reactionary views.[5]
These can lead to oppression and violence against groups of people
based on their supposed inferiority, or their perceived threat to the
native ethnic group,[6][7] nation, state[8] or ultraconservative
tradi
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A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and his
regarded as an authority on it.[1] Historians are concerned with the
continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as
relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in
time. If the individual is concerned with events preceding written
history, the individual is a historian of prehistory. Although
"historian" can be used to describe amateur and professional
historians alike, it is reserved more recently for those who have
acquired graduate degrees in the discipline
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